Cabbage Soup Diet - Report Day 4

Day 3 went by without any cheating whatsoever, they say that the first 3 days are the toughest and also the most effective, so I feel rather proud of myself. It wasn't with complete ease, the soup is incredibly uninteresting now and I was a bit grumpy last night, the food cravings are still there but today is bananas and milk, so that should be interesting. Didn't get round to cycling yesterday, the weather had changed anyway. Back to monkey business!

1st weekend of English Football Season - Betting

I've been developing a system I like to call "net bet", it's a stop at a winner bet that relates to players scoring at any time. When working out what to stake, start low - work out what you can afford to spend, then stake an amount which you can afford to multiply by 2 ten times. That's to say, if you can afford 60 pounds, you want to be starting off with around a mere 3 pence. It may sound pointless but believe me, it soon builds up and over the season you can make a good profit. Plus, it is playing it incredibly cautiously.

Today's tip is Jermaine Defoe to score at anytime in the Community Shield between Manchester United and Portsmouth. He's been in cracking form pre-season and I can see him getting one. At 3/1 with William Hill - place your bet!

3rd day of Cabbage Soup Diet

The beginning of the 3rd day, the 2nd day went strictly well despite being tempted by a friend who cooked delicious chicken breast and potatoes in my view! Today is fruit & vegetables except potatoes and bananas and it shouldn't be too difficult. Bought some fruit this morning and feeling pretty powerful, planning on going for a cycle soon!

An update on the diet!

The first day passed with out any errors, stuck to the diet religiously but my brain didn't! Couldn't stop thinking about pizzas and burgers but resisted the temptation of having 4 McDonalds, 3 Kfcs, 1 Burger King and numerous pizza places near by! Legs felt a bit weak at night and I woke up a few times feeling weird but that may have been something to do with going to bed earlier than usual. Woke up feeling powerful, went to buy the necessary vegetables as today is vegetables day! Started off with a salad, 2nd meal was a bowl of the notorious soup and now figuring out whether to have the potato earlier or in the evening!

Cabbage Soup Diet

So here's the diet, I'm currently testing. It claims to be a "low-fat, high-fiber diet that will help you get into shape fast before you embark on a more moderate long-term eating plan" and suggests that you could lose up to 5kg in 7 days.

Courtesy of cabbage-soup-diet.com, here it is:

Day One:
Fruit: Eat all of the fruit you want (except bananas). Eat only your soup and the fruit for the first day. For drinks- unsweetened teas, cranberry juice and water.

Day Two:
Vegetables: Eat until you are stuffed will all fresh, raw or cooked vegetables of your choice. Try to eat leafy green vegetables and stay away from dry beans, peas and corn. Eat all the vegetables you want along with your soup. At dinner, reward yourself with a big baked potato with butter. Do not eat fruit today.

Day Three:
Mix Days One and Two: Eat all the soup, fruits and vegetables you want. No Baked Potato.

Day Four:
Bananas and Skim Milk: Eat as many as eight bananas and drink as many glasses of skim milk as you would like on this day, along with your soup. This day is supposed to lessen your desire for sweets.

Day Five:
Beef And Tomatos: Ten to twenty ounces of beef and up to six fresh tomtoes. Drink at least 6 to 8 glasses of water this day to wash the uric acid from your body. Eat your soup at least once this day. You may eat broiled or baked chicken instead of beef (but absolutely no skin-on chicken). If you prefer, you can substitute broiled fish for the beef one one of the beef days (but not both).

Day Six:
Beef and Vegetables: Eat to your heart's content of beef and vegetables this day. You can even have 2 or 3 steaks if you like, with leafy green vegetables. No Baked Potato. Eat your soup at least once.

Day Seven:
Brown rice, unsweetened fruit juices and vegetables: Again stuff, stuff, stuff yourself. Be sure to eat your soup at least once this day.

and the ingredients to the soup? Well here in Poland where it gained notoriety after their former president went on the diet, I can buy the mix frozen without having to do any of the hardwork. But not all of us have that luxury, so here's the recipe to that initially ok soup that soon starts to taste bland (that's only after the 2nd bowl!)

6 large green onions
2 green peppers
1 or 2 cans of tomatoes (diced or whole)
3 Carrots
1 Container (10 oz. or so) Mushrooms
1 bunch of celery
half a head of cabbage
1 package Lipton soup mix
1 or 2 cubes of bouillon (optional)
1 48oz can V8 juice (optional)
Season to taste with salt, pepper, parsley, curry, garlic powder, etc

Losing weight for a wedding

Determined to look a bit slimmer by the time it comes round to my wedding day (September 13th), I've been setting out to lose some extra baggage. By just eating healthily and smaller portions, I have lost a couple of kilograms over about 6 weeks. Whilst their have been a few pitfalls, namely last weekend when I went hiking with a friend I hadn't seen for 6 months and drank and ate like a pig, I've generally stayed on course. I've decided to speed it up a little bit though as the date comes closer by trying a Cabbage Soup Diet for 7 days, followed by 1 week of healthy eating and topped off with 2 weeks of the Maple Syrup Diet, then 3 days of acclimatising my body to eating solid food again! That should get me ready just in time for the wedding from when I hope to resume a healthy eating regime once again.

I've checked out different sources and comments on both diets and with both very pro and anti opinions, I've decided just to go ahead and check it out for myself. So here's the nitty gritty:

Initial Weight before dieting at all: 90kg
Waist: 108cms, Midrif: 91cms, Chest:102cms
Estimated Body Fat: 30%

After the aformentioned few weeks of dieting and prior to commencing the Cabbage Soup Diet, the details are as follows:

Weight: 87kg
Waist: 104cms, midrif: 88cms Chest: 99cms

I will update you with how it's going at the end of the week!

Igougo.com

Having been recommended to me by one of the guides on dooyoo, I signed up to Igougo.com. Igougo.com is an online community created by the guide book "The Rough Guide", they pay you in miles for reviews, these miles can be cashed in to Amazon Miles or Air Miles (Lufthansa, American Air), whilst you can't buy vouchers and sell them on e-bay, you can buy something and re-sell it (Lonely Planet books are a good bet, the new ones often sell for more on e-bay than they are bought for on Amazon)

Cashout is at $25 and they pay you incredibly quickly, I have put up a significant number of pub/restaurant and place reviews and also added my travel photos on there. The amount you earn depends on the quality of the review but for a decent 350 or so word review of a pub, you often get around $1.25.

It is open to any nationality, as far as I'm aware and for those with good writing skills and old material that they haven't added to the site, it's definitely worth visiting. Combined with dooyoo, mysearchfunds and shareapic, you'll soon be earning a nice little additional income and one that could even support you if you are frugal and have little costs.

A change in style of the site

When I initially set this blog up, I wasn't aware of the amount of sites that were doing the same thing, many of them just to exchange links on mylot or gain referrals through it. In all honesty, I soon got bored of the clicking world.. it's lowly paid, mind-numbingly boring and takes ages to see the results, bux.to the one website that I have built up a sizeable account have still not paid me, their service is piss poor.

On the other hand, if it wasn't for such communities, I would never have come across the likes of dooyoo which in turn led me to other fruitful sites like Igougo.com, using the two of them to review each day, I can easily support and meet day-to-day travelling costs whilst on a trip in a cheap country and probably save some as well.

In the next post, you can read more about Igougo.coom and I now intend to add a whole realm of things including self-improvement experiments and challenges undertaken.

Dooyoo

Dooyoo is another reviewing site, one that initially pays better. Whilst the exact amount that Ciao pays you and the breakdown remains incredibly secret, dooyoo are quite upfront about what they pay. 50p for the initial review (which has to be over 150 words) and then 1.5p each time somebody reads the said review. To get more people to read your reviews, it is important to take part in the community as a whole by rating other people's reviews. It also helps if you write a good review as the members on their tend to rather be against people who write short reviews.

Overall, I've made over 100 pounds on Dooyoo within a month and haven't been particularly pushing it. It's definitely worth signing up!

Dooyoo pay you in Dooyoo Miles - 100 dooyoo miles is 10p. You can get paid by cheque if you have 50000 miles, buy amazon vouchers if you have 20000 and you can donate to charity if you have 7000. It's not hard to get to 50000 miles though and they pay very quickly, you will receive your cheque from Germany within 10 days of cashing out.

Ciao

When I first mentioned Ciao on here and added the link, I had just fallen for the website.

Ciao is perhaps most commonly known as a survey site where you can get paid to fill in online surveys but like so many sites that work in this way they select only a few and you must go through a questionaire to see if you fit the bill. I never have done but instead have just wasted my time filling in that unbelievably annoying form!

I really liked the site at the beginning but I soon grew frustrated at some of the rather aggressive ratings and comments by old hands. I immediately moved on to a similar site which initially pays more upfront, it's called dooyoo and I will review it nest. I'm now back on to Ciao but keep to music reviews. Basically, if you write small reviews with very little information, you won't earn a great deal and it will attract criticism from other members, on the other hand if you go into great detail, you receive praise and much better earnings. I recently received $4 for just the one review on a CD. The website itself has a wider choice than any other product review site with over 400,000 products to review and more each day.

Keep your reviews full of information, don't copy it from elsewhere and you will earn reasonably on Ciao.. I'd recommend joining.

Mysearchfunds

Earlier in the year, I mentioned - Mysearchfunds, I can confirm that I was paid out on May 23rd by paypal and received $40 in GBP for the money I earned in March. I'm also due an additional $46. The last weeks were the golden age of the Mysearchfunds search as they had been tied to google, yahoo and ask but gave regular google results. Getting paid to google, amazing! As I often write online reviews, I check information regularly and do quite a fair bit of searching. This is paying off!

Mysearchfunds now have a new fraud detecting system but I've not had any issues with that so I assume that as long as you are doing standard searches and not trying to cheat the system, you will be fine!

They've now also changed their name to homepages friends and the domain has changed to www.myhpf.co.uk but the old address will forward you there eventually. It would seem that the search engine is powered by Yahoo during June, which is a bit lousy in comparison to google and the results aren't that great plus I don't know how to find images on there. Well, getting paid to search is still a blessing!

Update

I haven't updated this for a while, decided to work extra hours to earn extra cash but I'm still sticking by my original intention of earning a million from online sources.
I've had to work out where my priorities lie and kicked a lot of the original clicking websites in to touch

Current statistics:

bux.to: $60
bux3.com: $17
mysearchfunds: $40
shareapic: $0.41
adsense: $15.70
archerfish: $6

I've also recently registered to two websites Ciao and Dooyoo that are pay to review websites.

I'll be reviewing those immediately above!

Ciao

My Search Funds - Get paid to Search

My Search Funds is linked to Ask.com which used to be AskJeeves. In an attempt to gain and keep customers and strengthen their position which has been weakened by Google going from strength to strength, they are paying you to search.

It's not entirely clear how much they pay you per search but they suggest that the average person will make $100 per year by using it do the same amount of searching that they have always done.

They pay by paypal and cheque and also offer 10% of referral's income and even more if your referral refers someone else. It's quick and easy to sign up to, simply make sure you have the new version of Internet Explorer or Mozilla.

The minimum withdrawal is $40 and they will pay you 45 days after the end of the month that you choose to make the withdrawal in.

You simply have nothing to lose.. if you wish to sign up, use me as a referral by clicking here

www.myp2p.eu - Watch Football, Rugby, Boxing - For Free!

Sometimes saving money is just as good as making money. If you subscribe to Sky or Setanta only so that you can watch sport or buy pay per view packages - you could save a lot of money providing you have a computer and a reasonably fast internet connection.

Whether it's Football (that's soccer to you Americans), Golf, Ice Hockey, Basketball, Rugby, Cricket, Boxing, American Football or any number of sports. You can find them on www.myp2p.eu

Simply go to the website, download a media player - preferably Sop Cast. Click on Live Sports, select what you want to watch (preferably choose one that has been given 5 stars by myp2p and 3 stars by the users), sopcast panel will appear, then log in as "anonymous" (which will be there immediately).

Wait for it to buffer and away you go.

It's that simple! Tomorrow I'm watching the Premier League Match - Manchester United v Manchester City in the ocmfort of my home for free.

Remember: www.myp2p.eu

Betting - A Mug's Game? NOT..with ZTIPS!

If you have no knowledge about the sport you are betting on and you are making your own choices or you are going with urges or betting on your own team.. it's quite likely you will lose. There are thousands of websites, companies and people offering you different systems and tipping services out there. Some of them charging a lot of money for nothing valuable, others charging a little money for nothing valuable. I've looked into a lot of them and the ONLY one I'd recommend is a friend of mine who runs a free tipping site. "Z" as he's known makes a healthy amount with his bets and affilliates and his motto is "A good tipster shouldn't need to charge for his tips, if he's making money on betting." I've been aware of his tips for the last 7 years.

There are tips roughly twice a week and it is recommendable to sign up to a couple of websites to ensure you get the best prices available. It is easier for you to sign up to the free mailing list so that you will receive e-mails with the tips in, rather than having to refresh the website on a regular basis.

He also offers a couple of lay bets each week, which are normally on betfair. Lay Betting is betting on a team not to win. You will win money whether they draw or lose. Betfair is not a bookmaker but a betting exchange that take a commission.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.

You can go to his website here: www.ztips.co.uk

Adverbux - Play games and click ads and make money

Adverbux pays through Alertpay and pays in dollars. It has a couple of low paid ads to click on each day.. but that's not the main reason for joining up. The main reason - I'd say is the fact they PAY YOU for playing GAMES! Cool games include Snake, Tetris and Whack a Penguin.. which is a bit gross but quite addictive. Anyway you can easily make a couple of bucks a day on the site.

They also offer upgrades and the possibility of buying referrals. You can also make 100% of the money that your referrals make by clicking and a smaller percentage on the action adverts (paid to sign up).

The minimum payout is $10. If you'd like to sign up, please use me as a referral by clicking here

Lulu.tv

I've just came across a website called lulu.tv which was until recently charging 15 dollars to become a 'shareholder'. Now it's free and THEY PAY YOU for uploading music, videos etc on to their website. It's like a paid version of Youtube with less features at the moment. You can also download the items on there unlike youtube where you have to mess around with other sites to download things.

There is no fixed amount that they pay you but they say they pay members 80/20 of all of their ad revenue. I think this site is going places and will be worth uploading stuff on to.

GET PLAYED. GET PAID.
How? Register for a FREE Shareholder account. 80% of the site's ad revenue gets put in a cash pool. You create audio or video content and upload it. It gets played... you get paid, based on your share of the traffic. Even if your share is one click.

Their advert is as follows.

It's so simple. So what do you say?

Shareholder Account:


My own vlog and profile
My own vodcast or podcast
Streaming embedded content players
Choose which content you want to get paid for
Unlimited upload and hosting of <= 200M clips
Unlimited upload and hosting of music clips
Unlimited upload and hosting of podcast episodes
Unlimited number of individual podcasts
Free video conversion to downloadable podcast usable content
Free video conversion to cellphone usable content
A chance to get famous and paid!
2 minute webcam vlogs
AND I CAN GET PAID

Check them out at www.lulu.tv

Shareapic - Paid Unlimited Photo Hosting

Came across a website called shareapic recently, basically it is a photo hosting website that pays. You can upload unlimited photos and they pay you $0.22 per 1000views. Whilst it is not much, a lot of sites charge for exactly the same service.

You can have as many galleries and upload as many photos as you like. You can also add google adsense to the code to make more money. You can add the photos to your blog, Hi5, myspace, facebook page etc.

The only thing you can't upload is nude clips, nipple slips, nipples that show through t-shirts (female I guess), thongs or partial nudity. Also nothing offensive/racist etc.

You also receive 10% of your referrals earnings for life. So if you do choose to sign up - please use me as a referral by clicking here

Update on Mylot, Adsense and Bux.to

Happy February!

I've been accepted by Adsense for Google Ads and they should appear on the website in a few moments. Had a couple of teething problems working out where in the template to add them and I'm surprised there is no tool to do that.

I've reached over $10.20 on Bux.to now and I'm currently in the process of making my first withdrawal. As you may or may not know, Paypal recently stopped working with the majority of PTC's. The reason isn't too clear but it would appear that certain unscrupulous sites had not paid their paypal fees.

Bux.to have now started paying out with AlertPay, so I've set up an account with them but it gave me the idea of checking out all the current paying options, which I will be doing in the next few posts.

Mylot are also turning out to be a winner. It does take a lot of posting to make good money and I've not put as much time into it as I possibly could. There are a lot of subjects covered and with a mere population of 100,000 members it is yet to be graced by 'keyboard warriors'.